Asus Maximus VI Formula (Z87) Motherboard Review

According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.

We used the game's demanding ‘Ultra' setting and a 1920 x 1080 resolution to push today's gaming hardware.

Asus' Maximus VI Formula delivers an average Battlefield 3 frame rate of 73 for our test system. According to the benchmark results, ASRock's Z87 OC Formula and the Maximus VI Hero both offer slightly higher frame rates, but the difference is much smaller than it seems due to rounding.

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